Wildfire kills Endangered Barbary macaques in Bouhachem mixed oak forest, Morocco

Abstract

Their food sources disappeared as the oak trees burned and all the acorns, invertebrates and fungi that the macaques find in the leaf litter and that sustain them through the winter were destroyed. This population of the Barbary macaque is important in a global context because it resides in continuous forest habitat and is unaffected by the unmanaged primate tourism seen elsewhere in Morocco. [Extracted from the article]